Lexicographical Neighbors of Backets
Literary usage of Backets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources by James Wood (1899)
"... common sense, say I, From reverie* so airy, from the too / Of dropping backets
into empty wells, / And growing old with drawing nothing up. ..."
2. Aide-mémoire to the Military Sciences: Framed from Contributions of Officers by Great Britain Army. Royal Engineers (1862)
"Such wheel) consist of * horizontal axle,—of the arms with their strut«,—of the
rim with its sole, shrouds, and backets. The axle may be either of wood or ..."
3. The Iron Age Directory (1908)
"Northern Engineering Works, Detroit, backets, Ore and Coal— Brown Hoisting Machinery
... backets, Tar— WJ Clark Co., Salem, O. backets, Tote— WJ Clark Co. ..."
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